D. Nurkse is the author of eight previous books of poetry. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Tanne Foundation award, and two awards from Poetry magazine. He has also written widely on human rights. He lives in Brooklyn.
The Age of Great Crusades | |
Jericho | p. 3 |
Albi | p. 4 |
The Gate of Abraham | p. 5 |
Ben Adan | p. 8 |
The Limbo of the Fathers | |
In the Hold | p. 13 |
Exile's Child | p. 14 |
The Cave Behind the Torrent | p. 15 |
Driving to Canaan with My Father | p. 17 |
The Prize | p. 18 |
The Anti-Death | p. 19 |
Sacrifice | p. 20 |
Practice | p. 22 |
The Adversary | p. 26 |
August Snow | p. 29 |
The Limbo of the Children | |
Nights in a Border Town | p. 33 |
Hitching to Mount Hebron | p. 34 |
Canaan | p. 38 |
At High Falls | p. 39 |
Mount Tabor | p. 42 |
The Border Range | p. 44 |
Return to Underhill Road | p. 45 |
The child | p. 47 |
Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn | p. 50 |
The Deferment | p. 55 |
Rosal | p. 57 |
Two Small Empires | p. 62 |
The Shelter | p. 64 |
The Gods | |
Giants Versus Angels | p. 67 |
Autopoiesis | p. 69 |
A Marriage in Belmont | p. 71 |
Late Summer | p. 73 |
Picnic by the Inland Sea | p. 74 |
Three Naps at Walker Point | p. 75 |
The Missing | p. 76 |
After a Bombing | p. 77 |
Survivors | p. 79 |
In the Year of Circular Marches | p. 80 |
Liberation in Winter | p. 82 |
Letter from Solange | p. 83 |
Parousia | p. 86 |
The Gods | p. 88 |
A Child in Brooklyn | p. 90 |
Leaving Hawk Mountain | p. 92 |
Lorimer | p. 93 |
Grafton | p. 95 |
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